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Re: iOS, yeah, I was looking at my purchased app history to get inspiration for a new project and a decent chunk of apps I bought around the time of the first i
by tomduncalf 9y ago
Re: iOS, yeah, I was looking at my purchased app history to get inspiration for a new project and a decent chunk of apps I bought around the time of the first iPad (as well as newer ones) are no longer available, which is a shame. I can’t really blame the authors for not going back and updating a £1.99 app 6 years after the fact, but it’s a shame and I hope there won’t be another “extinction event” like this. Am I right in understanding that Bitcode should make architecture changes much less of an issue for iOS in future?
- StudentStuff 9y agoApple is pinning a lot on bitcode, but they really aren't willing to do what Linus does and take a firm stance to not break userspace. Microsoft does that to a fair degree, hence old WinXP apps still running on Windows 10. When you get back to the DOS era tho, better to just use DosBox! Due to the closed ecosystem for iOS, this type of abandoned app preservation will be extremely hard to do :c